RNA Metabolism and Human Diseases
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Cell Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 2469
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nonsense-mediated mRNA decay; stem cell biology; neurodevelopmental disorders
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
RNA metabolism involves a series of molecular events during the whole lifespan of RNAs, including transcription, pre-mRNA processing, epitranscriptomic modification, translation, and RNA degradation. These processes are tempo-spatially controlled by various proteins such as RNA-binding proteins and RNA-related enzymes, and also by noncoding RNAs, such as microRNAs, siRNAs, piRNAs, long noncoding RNAs, and circular RNAs, in different cellular compartments accompanying a variety of life activities. Disturbances of RNA metabolism are strongly associated with human developmental disorders, cancers, viral infection, and aging processes. In this Special Issue entitled “RNA Metabolism and Human Diseases”, we invite you to submit original articles or reviews discussing the biological consequences and molecular mechanisms of any aspects of RNA metabolism in models of cells, animals, and humans. We hope this Special Issue will provide a valuable platform for scientific communication among researchers working on RNA biology.
Prof. Dr. Tangliang Li
Prof. Dr. Hua Jin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- RNA metabolism
- RNA processing
- epitranscriptome
- translational control
- RNA degradation
- developmental disorders
- cancer
- aging
- viral infection
- RNA-binding proteins
- RNA-related enzymes
- noncoding RNAs
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